Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] last " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time .
2 Have you been er worrying about Margaret Thatcher tearing a pound note up for the last twelve thirteen years ?
3 As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough .
4 The Queen , the unit 's colonel-in-chief , stood watching a final march past by as the corps band struck up for the last time .
5 B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years .
6 Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold .
7 A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years .
8 Oh I looked up about the last , the last essay I did cos it was about erm
9 Some windows were still boarded up after the last attack .
10 There was a lot more professionalism to his jumping as , travelling strongly throughout , the top weight only had to be shaken up after the last to beat previous winner Wellknown Character two and a half lengths .
11 I suppose this could be a flare up of the last one .
12 I do n't want this match to end up like the last two Tests . ’
13 Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged .
14 This left Ambegate in front but he weakened up the hill and never-say-die Scudamore forced Vagog up in the last few strides .
15 The state stands for , in an abstract sense , the final repository of agreement of the people to be ruled , and therefore an ultimate legitimation , backed up in the last instance , by the state 's claim to the monopoly of legitimate use of force .
16 In East Yorkshire they are glacial erratics , stones picked up in the last Ice Age , worn smooth , and deposited as the ice retreated .
17 Some 44 per cent of the 65 advertisers interviewed saw the economy picking up in the last quarter of this year at the earliest , and a further 35 per cent did not envisage an improvement until 1993 .
18 shine On ridden with breathtaking confidence by the young apprentice Kelly Connor who got up in the last stride to — ’
19 Their calibre , though , is impossible to deny : listen to the last half of Divine Madness and you 'll hear the most consistently pugnacious and provocative music British pop has turned up in the last 15 years .
20 Entries are flowing in — a limit of 2000 has been set — but Malcolm Barham , of the race organisers , says things generally hot up in the last few days before the closing date , which is April 10 .
21 Mr Mortimer popped up in the last episode of the seventh series of Rumpole as a guest at Mr Justice Oliphant 's lunch .
22 Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over .
23 Although things have picked up in the last six months , the work is more likely to be restructuring , rights issues or corporate rescues .
24 Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's .
25 But you 've got to make a mental leap , because I mean for the last five years , things have been pretty horrible , since eighty seven really , I mean we 've only had the pick up in the last year .
26 The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from
27 Whether that uncertainty affected the players can not be assessed , but this match sank below the fare served up in the last home game against Swansea , and that was bad enough .
28 In the report it says that home repossessions have gone up in the last 12 months .
29 But , I , physically I ca n't do it , I , I 've aged up in the last few years .
30 no , still full up from the last
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